The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-12-02
GEORGIA AND OHIO.
Methoi is and Profits Of Farm
ing in the Two States.
GREEN GRASS AND SCENTED Hay

Americus, Ga.,-[Special to At
lanta Consti tut ton. ABOUT the
first question which an Ohio farm
asks when he gets into Georgia
is;
"Can YOU raise grass"
And the almost invariable an
swer by the Georgia farmer is "No. "
Standing in the midst OF cottor
field where it was a debatable ques-
ton as TO which was the highest
the grass or the cotton, with the
chances little in favor Of the grass
both the question and the answer are
ludicrous. And We! the quest ion
and the answer are both natural.
The Ohio farmer has been accus>
toned to the meadows of his state d,
wherein clover and timothy are
carefully cultivated for hay and
pasturage.
The absence of these grass fields in
Georgia prompts his question.
The Georgia farmer understands
him. He also understands grass to
mean clover and timothy, from
which is made the hay he buys
from northern markets. The "crab'
grass end "crow-ioot," which sur
rounds him, he considers Gully as
noxlous weed, that threatens the
ruin ofhis COTTON crop. He has
been accustomed to fight them early
and late, as the most deadly foes tC
his prosperity, and lie can see nj
good in them. So deadly is his ha
tired of this grassy foe, he will no
even allow a sprig Of it to grow II
his door yard, which dNzzles the ey'
with its white sand.
/ AS the Georgian hates grass, 81
/ did tie Ohio farmers ancestors, hat
trees. Having to hew their farm
out of the forests, they 50 hated tn
sight of tree tina they would no
allow one TO stand within sight 0
the house and their treeless yacds
were as uuinviting as the grassles
yards OF the Geoi gian. The Ohioal
Of today plants treesiu his door yar'
and in his fields, and The farmer o
southwest Georgia is beginning t
realize tie value of grass, and 1t wi
be but a lew years when the Glove
fields ct each county will rival /
beauty and fragrance those of Ohio
six years ago the sight OF loa
of hay on the streets of America
was Of sufi;i ant rarity to attention
And such hay as it was! A icy
dozen armiuls of old dead ccsb gras
pulled mp BY the roots, the dir
scarcely shaken off of it. The who's
load wouldn't weigh hundre'
pounds, and there wasn't enoug
nouris hmeut in it to make G. meal 10
cali.
Now there is scarcely dav pas
ses that you cannot see upon tn
streets one or more loads of hay
And 1t is hay! Green. soft, sweet
smelling aud nutritious. l. wa
only with the bloom aud the dew on
when its stems were hlei to tn,
full with sweet juices and its leave
wore their bughtes: hue of gre en-
| And this same crab grass hay Is bet
ter than any timothy that ever grey
in Ohio. for which our farmers use,
to pay lhirtY dollars per ton.
What has brought about thi
change?
Well. continuous pr c a C h j n
through the columns OF the puper,
aided by the spur of necessity
( II was no sudden conversion, and
by no means a Wholesale one ever
yet. But I've seed is sown aud tbs
grsas 10 growing.
Is hay raising profita bic in Geor-
gia2
/ will give va the figures, and
you can maze your own deduc-
I tiOns,
About the first lot Of hay made il
Sumter county for the market wa
made BY an enterprising young
farmer three years ago. / had talk
ell to him many times about max
ing hay, and enc day ne came into
my office alnl told me that hs had
a rich bottom field from which lie
had cut of inc crop Of oats. The